On 2011-03-14 14:25 , Krisjanis Linkevics wrote:
What formatting these does should be exactly nothing (or equivalent to deleting
files) but formatting is done with a piece of software on the host computer (or
camera) and therefore can introduce more writes/deletes than necessary.
What people formatting cards usually think is that the whole card will be
writeen full of zeros - which - although thankfully not the case - is actually
what you don't want to do - ever (because of the wear and tear).
i'm with you on this Kris; these days on hard disks as well formatting
usually just clears the catalog unless you do a "security erase"; it's
not like the low-level formatting of yore, and it is pretty unnecessary;
i format only a few times a year, in the camera, which at a best case
would clear any bad pointers in the catalog; i don't expect it to
improve a card in any way
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